Indeed, I think this is part of a long game to make it so that all network requests can be hardware attested that the user is running a known and/or "blessed" s

Indeed, I think this is part of a long game to make it so that all network requests can be hardware attested that the user is running a known and/or "blessed" system. It's not just Microsoft either, but all the big techs (Apple, Google, etc). Riff raff like us that run Linux will have to switch or say goodbye to most of the internet. Other parts of this include Apple's Private Access Token, and Google's Web Environment Integrity. Once they have all that done and covering the large majority of users, the ratcheting will start. Using the internet without one of these blessed systems will be much like it is using Tor today (endless CAPTCHAs, lot's of refusing to work, etc).